Yay!

Three of our four chickens are laying now: Sybill, Minerva and Ginny.
And maybe even a fourth soon!:D

A third layer or one of the mysterious two?

Wow, we just saw Sibyll lay an egg! But what I'm wondering is whether she is one of the two first layers. I don't know if she is or not, but we're excited about the egg anyway!:)

Double cause for celebration!

Ever since my Dad and I got up this morning, looked in the chicken coop and to our surprise and excitement, saw the first egg, I've been wanting to blog about it, but for some reason I just can't get on the computer, my Mom and brother have been busy playing computer games all day! Anyway, i finally got time today.

It's a little past sunset, when we put our chickens to bed, but because of Fang they've been in their coop practically all day. I went out there to say good night to our chickens and (I don't know why I did this 'cuz our chickens barely ran around outside of their coop) look for eggs in the yard in case they layed while they were outside. Well, I looked around and didn't find much, so I gave up and headed back to the coop, I was going to look in the nestbox for more eggs, as I did this however I was thinking how dumb it was to check a second time, and how the chickens could get out. I was amazed as I looked in the coop and saw a second egg, just sitting there in the nestbox! I went inside and showed the egg to my Mom, who was astonished too and put in the refrigerator, after that I ran around screaming. :) Harry didn't run around screaming, he was too busy playing on the computer, but he screamed at least!
Here are some pictures of the eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!


Unfourtunately, we do not know who the two mysterious layers are.

Fang

My gradnparents came to visit a week ago to look for houses here(they live in California and want to move out here to be where all the family is: my cousins live here in Colorado, as well as us!) and brought their dog, Fang.

Fang is so big he comes up to my waist; as big as he is he still is very skinny. He is a pure white German shepherd with a tendancy to run away; unfourtunately, he is just too fast to catch. *Sigh* But Fang's a good dog, when he's not running away, and Sunny LOVES to play with him. She actually dominates him, he's just a big baby, hee hee.

But we're not so sure about Fang and the chickens, or the squirrels. Funny thing is, he goes crazy whenever he sees a squirrel, but he doesn't even notice our rats. And one other thing: we're baby-sitting Fang -- he's a very big baby though!

Jelly!

Today we made grape jelly, although the grapes were not from our garden they were from a friend of ours -- her dogs were eating the grapes and she wasn't using them for anything, so we asked if we could take them and she said yes. Now we had two bags full of small, fresh, organic grapes, and since we couldn't eat all of them and allready had plans to make at least some of them into jelly, we decided to make some grape jelly! It was the best jelly I have ever had! Even if it was a little bit too sweet by my standards...
Here is a picture of this wonderful, blended, boiled, strained and spectacular jelly! Although I can't give you a taste of how good the jelly is, I can share a deliciously pretty picture of the finished jelly!

What do you do with a couple of overgrown zucchinis?

Here's the answer:
carve statues out of them!

This is one of the stone heads from easter island as best as I could make it:























This is the famous statue "The Thinker" carved out of zucchini as well as I could carve it:

So much to talk about!

There's so much to talk about on a new blog!
I'll start with pets: we have a dog named Sunny who was found wandering around in LA, and found by a freind of ours who E-mailed the photo of her to us and our first response was "That's our dog!"


















We also have 4 chickens.
This is Sybill, no, she's not half turkey, she's a chicken, although she is a turken.
















This is Madame Maxime, (our chickens names are from Harry Potter), a buff orpington, so she should get bigger then the rest of the chickens, but not yet.





















This is Minerva. Our chickens should start laying soon, but none has yet, hopefully we will not be too late to find the eggs either, because when your chickens have full range of the yard you never know when they might lay their first egg, or where!



















This is our lap chicken Ginny, well she isn't now that she's grown up, but when she was a chick, the only way you could get her to fall asleep was holding her, and if you weren't in the same room as her, she'd peep until you picked her up!























We also have some pet rats, this is Emile, named after Emile the rat in Ratatouilli

















This is Remy, Emile's sister, even though Remy and Emile are brothers in the Ratatouilli movie





















This is one of our three fish, Bluey the beta. I could only get pictures of two fish, though, our algae-eater is very shy.


















This is our blackskirt tetra that lives with Bluey and Mr. Sucky ( our algae- eater)





















And, last but not least, except in size, one of my two grasshopper pets, my brother has two also, so this represents all four grasshoppers, they all look alike anyway, except for one of mine, his name is One-Leg, and you can guess why he looks different.

Sewing

Today I decided to sew a shirt, and I did. One thing I like about being unschooled is usually, if you want to do something you get it done! :)
I've also been interested in skinning and leatherworking, but today I've been working with cloth.
The red shirt I sewed didn't fit me perfectly (it was a bit snug) so I gave it to my 6- (almost 7-) year-old brother, who's been wearing it ever since (although I just made it this evening.)
I'll put up pictures of it soon!
I'm also planning on embroidering it, too, once Harry (my brother) decides what he wants on it! :)